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for ever and ever

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.35 in modern English

Syllables
for ev-er and ev-er
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

Eternally; timelessly; with no beginning and no end.

adv

Forever.

Etymology

Arising in the King James Bible, an approximate translation from Ancient Greek εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων (eis toùs aiônas tôn aiṓnōn, “to the aeons of the aeons”) and Hebrew לעולם ועד (“forever and until”), as well as Latin in saecula saeculorum and per omnia saecula saeculorum (themselves from the Greek).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων, לעולם ועד, in saecula saeculorum

Inflected Forms

forever and ever (alternative)

Questions

What does for ever and ever mean?
Eternally; timelessly; with no beginning and no end.
Where does for ever and ever come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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